It became clear to Major-General Mohammad Salman Saftli, a Syrian Republican Guard officer overseeing the army’s response, that this was no skirmish. The rebel attack was the most violent and ...

Meqdad Louay Fatiha (Abu Jaafar), an Alawite and former officer in the Syrian Republican Guard, has been urging the Alawite community to resist HTS since the Assad regime’s downfall on December 8. In ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.